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Filmhouse Distribution

In addition to cinema exhibition, Filmhouse also distributes films throughout the UK. If you would like to book a Filmhouse title for your cinema please contact filmbookings@filmhousecinema.com or phone 0131 228 6382.

Current Filmhouse releases:

1945

Director: Ferenc Török

Released: 12 October 2018

When two black clad men arrive at a country railway station, a classic western set up appears to be unfolding. But it’s 1945 in Soviet-occupied Hungary in the immediate aftermath of World War II, and by their appearance the men are Orthodox Jews. As the two men make their way to town and word of their arrival spreads, there’s a growing panic amongst some of the more prominent townsfolk - especially town clerk, István, whose son’s wedding is later that day…

With its monochrome splendourand striking soundtrack, morally compromised townspeople and its tick-tock narrative, 1945 recalls nothing more than Fred Zinnemann’s taut and masterful High Noon.

Marlina the Murderer in 4 Acts

In the windswept uplands of the Indonesian island of Sumba stands a remote and rustic homestead. The widow Marlina lives there with the embalmed corpse of her as-yet-unburied husband. When a local gang leader visits and announces that his crew will arrive that night to steal Marlina’s livestock, and gang rape her “if they have time”, Marlina must take drastic action to protect her self and safeguard her livelihood. The next morning, she packs up a severed head and sets out for town to face the consequences of her sternly efficient act of self-preservation…

Atomic

Director: Mark Cousins

Released: 21 October 2016

With images of protest marches, Cold War confrontation, Chernobyl and Fukushima, Mark Cousins’ impressionistic film is a kaleidoscope of the appalling destructive power of the atomic bomb, and also the beauty and benefits of x-rays and MRI scans. In the era of the new £18 billion Hinkley Point power plant, the warning of the film is as relevant as ever. The atomic world is beautiful but, soon after discovering its power, human beings used it in murderous and dangerous ways.

Mogwai’s compelling soundtrack to the film perfectly encapsulates the nightmare of the nuclear age, but also its dreamlike beauty.

Every year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujarat, India, where they will stay for the next eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them.

Director Farida Pacha and cinematographer Lutz Konermann spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives and crafting an exquisite, lyrical film in the process.

The Robber

Director: Benjamin Heisenberg

Released: 21 March 2014

A tense, kinetic thriller based on Martin Prinz's novel about real-life 80s Austrian criminal sensation 'Pump-gun Ronnie' (named after his weapon of choice and his Reagan mask).

Doing a bank job immediately on his release from prison, it's clear Johann Rettenberger's stint in jail hasn't had the effect the authorities had hoped for.

A chance encounter with Erika, an old family friend who works at the job centre he is forced to attend as a condition of his parole, hints at possible redemption...

Either Way

Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson

Released: 4 December 2013

Finn and Alfred are employees of the Icelandic Road Administration in the 1980s, spending days painting yellow lines on a rural highway with only each other for company. Finn is older and (seemingly) wiser than skirt-chasing Alfred, for whom sex is constantly on the brain. The two men barely tolerate each other at first, but ultimately share their deepest questions and possible answers about life and love.

Sigurdsson uses the isolated countryside of northern Iceland to highlight the nuances of Finn and Alfred's colourful dialogue and behaviour, their Sisyphean work a perfect metaphor for the difficulties of human connection.

¡Vivan Las Antipodas!

Director: Victor Kossakovsky

Released: 22 November 2013

Antipodes are places diametrically opposite one another on the earth's surface. Because most of the planet is covered by oceans, antipodes with dry land on both sides are fairly rare.

In this audacious, contemplative, stunningly beautiful work, master documentarist Victor Kossakovsky takes us to four antipodal pairs, and, in doing so, changes the way we see our world.

Kossakovsky's extraordinarily fluid camerawork glides, swoops, somersaults, spins and flips between locations, and we begin to notice the things that join the places and people rather than what separates them. A dazzling and ultimately moving meditation on our planet.

The Stoker

NO LONGER IN DISTRIBUTION BY FILMHOUSE

Director: Alexey Balabanov

Released: 17 May 2013

Set in the mid 1990s outside St Petersburg, The Stoker tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.

Living in the incinerator room, the Major shovels coal all day, and fills his spare time writing a novel about a Russian criminal sent into exile in Yakutia in the XIX century, whilst turning a blind eye to his former military comrade-turned-hitman, the Sergeant, who arrives to dispose of bodies. But even our compliant stoker has his limits...